He Heals the Brokenhearted

¹Praise Yah![#147:1 Or Hallelujah!]

For it is good to sing praises to our God;

For it is pleasant and praise is becoming.

²Yahweh builds up Jerusalem;

He gathers the outcasts of Israel.

³He is the One who heals the brokenhearted

And who binds up their wounds,

⁴Who counts the number of the stars;

He gives names to all of them.

⁵Great is our Lord and abundant in power;

His discernment is infinite.

⁶Yahweh helps up the afflicted;[#147:6 Or relieves]

He brings down the wicked to the ground.

⁷¶Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving;

Sing praises to our God on the lyre.

⁸He is the One who covers the heavens with clouds,

The One who provides rain for the earth,

The One who makes grass to sprout on the mountains,

⁹Who gives to the animal its food,

And to the young ravens which call out.

¹⁰He does not delight in the might of the horse;

He does not take pleasure in the legs of a man.

¹¹Yahweh is pleased with those who fear Him,

Those who wait for His lovingkindness.

¹²¶Laud Yahweh, O Jerusalem!

Praise your God, O Zion!

¹³For He strengthened the bars of your gates;

He blessed your sons within you.

¹⁴He is the One who sets peace in your borders,[#147:14 Lit your borders peace]

He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat,

¹⁵The One who sends forth His command to the earth;

His word runs very swiftly,

¹⁶The One who gives snow like wool;

He scatters the frost like ashes,

¹⁷Who casts forth His ice as fragments;

Who can stand before His cold?

¹⁸He sends forth His word and melts them;

He causes His wind to blow and so the waters flow,

¹⁹Who declares His words to Jacob,

His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

²⁰He has not done so with any nation;

So as for His judgments, they have not known them.

Praise Yah!